Denial of Service Vulnerability in Irssi's unformat_24bit_color Function

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Irssi's unformat_24bit_color Function

CVE-2016-7044 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The unformat_24bit_color function in the format parsing code in Irssi before 0.8.20, when compiled with true-color enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap corruption and crash) via an incomplete 24bit color code.

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